The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-28
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS. OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Marietta-A Penknife Over 100 Years
Old Owned in Taylor County.
GEORGIA
The Rome Land Company will soon buid
a blast furnace with capacity of sixty tons
per day.
Elberton is short of dwelling houses.
There is a constant demand for them, and
there are no vacant ones.
Mrs. r. c. Paris, of Reynolds, received
the first prize of medal worth $50, for the
finest display of needlework at the Piedmont
Exposition.
II. D. Watts, a grocer of Americas, has
transferred his stock of groceries and brick
business block to his two principal creditors,
johnson & Harris and j. d. Hudgins, of
Macon.
Atlanta claims that the Piedmont EXPOSE
ton has cash profit of $40. 900, besides pay
ing over $4,000 for the buildings and
grounds This alleged success has caused a
plan to be started for worlds fair in 1889.
Henry w. Grady has just been presented
with an elegant and costly testimonial for
his services to the city of Atlanta. The
present was handsome tea and coffee set,
of solid silver, consisting of six pieces, AND
cost 81 200.
The bell for the new court house clock at
Americas has arrived, and it is huge affair
1t weighs 1,040 pounds, is SO inches in
diameter at the. base and so inches deep. A
mau can safely squat down under it, and he
would be in a good safe prison.
The Atlanta police arrested one of Mari
etta's most upright citizens at the Piedmont
Fair for pickpocket last week. A man in
a crowd had his watch stolen, and fellow
with SLOUGH hat got it. The Marietta cti-
zen, who was standing near, wearing a STIFF
hot toll ha atraCtaH and
searched. OF course, not finding the watch
on his person, they Lad to turn him loose,
while the real thief had time to get away.
There was no prouder boy in Americas
last Monday than Master Shelby Myrick,
when he went to the train to see Ex-Presi-
dent Davis The little fellow wore a medal
presented to his grandfather, Col James
L. Scudder, of Tennessee, for bravery at the
battle of Monterey in Mexico, when he
fought by the side of Mr.. Davis The medal
was left as legacy to Master Shelby, who
would not take thousands of dollars for it.
At Rome, Tuesday, Pro Tenn Mayor
Printup ordered the washing of the street
cars stopped. 1t was a singular edict. and
one the company could not understand.
They had obtained permission of the COun-
Gil to wash the cars ON Broad street. and
had gone to the expense of putting in
proper appliances. Mayor Knox knew
nothing Of the issuing of the order until
Col. Magruder told him of it. He revoked
it at once.
Prof. Conner, Superintendent of the deaf
and dumb asylum at Cave Springs, has a
pin that contains a relic that he prizes very
highly 1t is a miniature hat, perfect in
shape, made out of piece of the hat Jeffer-
son Davis wore on his visit to Atlanta, and
which was torn into hundreds of pieces by
some of the old chiefs admirers, who want
ed the pieces as relics He secured several,
and, out of one had hat made and put in
gold frame.
On Saturday night last Messrs. G. c.
Knowles, j. W. Boswell, Willie Keller,
Henry Bibby, Albert and Robert Gibson,
aud perhaps others all of Talbotton,
started out for 'possum hunt 1t is said
that three of the party had pistols, and
soon after getting into the woods they
began TO fire off their pistols, and Albert Glib
son, the smallest and youngest of the party
was hit by pistol ball. 1t entered his body
in the back, near the spinal column and Just
below his shoulder blade. He will probably
recover.
A law suit is to be instituted against the
estate of the late Judge n. B. Knight, of
Marietta, by Mrs. NJ. L. fowler, of Arkan-
sas, sister to Judge Knight, for the recov-
cry of 5000 and interest for twenty-seven
years, which would make it about s., 600 1t
is claimed that the amount was trust money
under will from Mrs Towler's father, ani
that Judge Knight was made trustee under
the will to keep Mrs. Towler's husband from
handling the money. Judge Knights wife
claims to hold receipts from the husband of
Mrs. fowler in settlement of the claim, but
1T is said, the will does not recognize Tow
ler's right to receipt for the money. Equities
are claimed on both sides.
Capt W. H. Tondee, OF Americas, has in
his possession an Indian pipe that was
given to his brother, Capt. Robert Tondee.
by an Indian in Kansas in 1853 or 1859
I ne bowl of the pipe is of red MARBLE very
large and heavy. The stem is of some hard
wood, about two feet long, oval shape, one
and a quarter inches broad and one quarter
inch thick 1t is both puzzle and a curl
osity. There are sixteen holes cut through
the stem from side to side, some in the
centre and some on the outer sides, and the
smoke hole lengthway through the stem is
the puzzle. How it was made through the
hard wood, which is one piece, and curved
around the holes and brass-headed tacks
that ornament it is puzzle.
Martin Brooks, living near Fickling's
mill, in Taylor county, has a small white
handle pocketknife purchased in South Car
DINA by the great grandfather of Mr..
Brooks in 1884. 1t has been kept in the
anu udIlueu uOWn from sire TO son
for 153 years, and is now the property Of
Mamie, the little daughter of Mr.. Brooks,
who prizes the knife very much, it having
been given by her grandmother The knife
has only one small blade, and is consider
ably worn from having been very much
used. In olden times steel pens were not
known, and "old Mother Goose in those
days furnished the only instruments for
writing. and this knife was purchased and
used principally for trimming goose uuills
for writing pens.
Rumor has it that Henry w. Grady has
resigned his membership in the Capital CITY
Club of Atlanta. This is how the story is
told upon the streets: When the Capital
City Club entertained President Cleveland
there was a rush for tickets, and the COM
mittee that had the reception in hand found
no little trouble in filling the demands. Mr.
Henry w. Grady dropped note
to the committee requesting fifty
blank tickets, to be filed out by himself
The committee refused the request on
the ground that 1t was unconstitutional that
is the bylaws prohibited the issuing of more
than specified number to any member and
the giving of blank tickets to ANYBODY I'M
der any circumstances. Mr.. Grady appealed
to President Minis, and the President said
Mr.. Grady ought to have tickets and should
have them. So the committee was appealed
to by the President, but it did no good.
Said the committee: 1.-THE President Mr.